Philip Noel-Baker (UK)

Friend of the poorest, lowliest and the lost Mr. Gandhi was a man whose greatness belonged not only to his life-time but history.

Some of the greatest men in human history have fallen by assassin's hands. Others, like Mr. Gandhi, have known that their lives were menaced. None has shown such selfless contempt for danger. None in his death has shown so clearly how senseless and sterile is the act of murder, and the fanaticism from which it springs.

We believe that his greatest achievements are still to come. Mr. Gandhi was the friend of the “poorest, the lowliest and the lost.”